Newbie notice: I cannot understand graphics system. :(

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by PowerWyrm

Unfortunately I don't think there's a compiled SDL client... so you'd have to compile it yourself. There should be hints on how to compile the Angband source code on the dev site.

But I'm afraid they don't cover compiling the SDL module for Windows, because I don't think anyone's ever done this. You could try

./configure --enable-win --enable-sdl ; make

but I have no idea whether that will work. I don't think main-win supports the -m switch, which would make it impossible to select the SDL display module.

[PowerWyrm]

Originally Posted by Magnate

But I'm afraid they don't cover compiling the SDL module for Windows, because I don't think anyone's ever done this. You could try

./configure --enable-win --enable-sdl ; make

but I have no idea whether that will work. I don't think main-win supports the -m switch, which would make it impossible to select the SDL display module.

Well I have a compiled SDL client for my variant that works under Windows and to compile it I simply wrote a makefile to add main-sdl instead of main-win and defined WIN32/USE_SDL.

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by PowerWyrm

Well I have a compiled SDL client for my variant that works under Windows and to compile it I simply wrote a makefile to add main-sdl instead of main-win and defined WIN32/USE_SDL.

Right - so it uses SDL *instead* of the Win32 module - you don't choose the display module at run-time (like with the unix builds).

I think the way forward is to get Windows to support the -m option: as well as allowing Windows users to use the SDL version, it will also allow people to run stats and tests in Windows.

[takkaria]

Originally Posted by Magnate

Right - so it uses SDL *instead* of the Win32 module - you don't choose the display module at run-time (like with the unix builds).

I think the way forward is to get Windows to support the -m option: as well as allowing Windows users to use the SDL version, it will also allow people to run stats and tests in Windows.

You can't make the Windows port support the -m option because of the way Windows deals with things (Windows uses WinMain instead of main(), and SDL defines WinMain too...) So you're always going to need different binaries under Windows I think.

[PowerWyrm]

Originally Posted by takkaria

You can't make the Windows port support the -m option because of the way Windows deals with things (Windows uses WinMain instead of main(), and SDL defines WinMain too...) So you're always going to need different binaries under Windows I think.

My SDL client doesn't define WinMain. I'm using main.c for the entry point and main-sdl.c (which doesn't have main or Winmain defined) for the SDL port. The only thing to do is have a makefile that links c0x32.obj (console application) instead of c0w32.obj (Windows application). But yeah this means having two separate binaries for Win and SDL...